Just the facts
- When: Tonight, 7:00 PM
- Where: TD Garden – Boston, MA
- How to follow: NESN, 98.5 The Sports Hub
- Opposing perspective: Lighthouse Hockey
Know your enemy
- 4-3-1, 9PTS, T-5th in the Metropolitan Division
- Bo Horvat: 5G-4A-9PTS; Anders Lee: 2G-6A-8PTS; Mathew Barzal: 2G-5A-7PTS; Matthew Schaefer: 2G-5A-7PTS
- Ilya Sorokin: 2-3-1, 3.70 GAA, .875 save percentage; David Rittich: 2-0-0, 2.01 GAA, .940 save percentage
Game notes
- The Boston Bruins are back at home after a quick little road trip to welcome the New York Islanders to the TD Garden. It was the Bruins THIRD back-to-back already to start the season. One faired well for the Bruins, the other not so much. This one, well, it’s not off to a great start.
- It definitely gets harder and harder writing something positive to takeaway from a game that ends in a 7-1 loss. But here we are 1-7-0 in the last eight games. Eight games out of 11 in October.
- It sounds like a broken record by now, but the B’s defensive zone play is killing them.
- Morgan Geekie enters tonight’s game on a four-game goal streak. Overall, he’s at has seven goals in 11 games. It took him 12 games last season to net his first goal and 30 games to reach seven goals. But it looks like while the team is going to have its ups and downs, Geekie is picking up pretty much where he left off to end the 2024-25 season — one of the biggest and consistent contributors every night.
- Jeremy Swayman had two straight starts so unless something crazy happens, Joonas Korpisalo should be getting the nod. Korpisalo is 1-3-0 this season with a 4.03 GAA and .845 save percentage. Islanders announced yesterday that Sorokin would be in net.
- For the Isles, Alexander Romanov and Max Shabanov will be out for tonight. Romanov is set to miss his fifth game with an upper-body injury while this will be the third game Shabanov is sidelined.
- Marat Khusnutdinov drew back into the lineup last night. We’ll see if Marco Sturm keeps him on the fourth line or if he subs out again.
- Last night, the second period set the tone for what happened. The Bruins have had trouble in the middle frame, giving up 11 goals accumulated in their six losses and seven games total. When they’ve won, they’ve given up only one second-period goal in four games.
